Featured Book for Lectures: All in My Head |
All in My Head is a black comedy, a candid memoir and an informed journalistic report. It's about my often absurd struggles to try to cure (but ultimately manage) one long 15-year migraine (now diagnosed as "chronic daily headache"), through odysseys through the extremes of both Western and alternative medicine.
Meanwhile, the book stops to address different "big picture" issues involved, such as framing chronic pain as a "women's issue." This book is the first one written on "chronic daily headache," a constant or near-constant headache, that affects about 4-5 percent of the population (and about 10 percent of women of childbearing age).
SALON.COM (4-05): "Her book connects the dots on this issue of women and chronic pain in a way nobody else has done." THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (5-06) describes the book as "exhaustively researched, comprehensive in its cultural analysis, effectively organized, engagingly written, and, well, a riot." Read more reviews and blurbs hereOrder the book here
CBC spot on headache research
I was quoted (just before the 8-minute mark) with my killjoy feminist POV on the Canadian radio show, "The Current." Follows new report by the World Health Organization about lack of treatment for and research about chronic headache.
Created on 02/03/2005 02:04 PM by carolsim
Updated on 07/28/2011 04:32 PM by paulakamen
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Feminist Panel at Northwestern |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 01/11/2012 12:29 PM
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Will show first half hour of HBO Gloria Steinem documentary, as a jumping off point for discussion on feminist generations. Will join three other women as panelists for post-film discussion: shewrites.com co-founder and 40something
Deborah Siegel, sixthysomething Jane Addams biographer Louise Knight, and 30something blogger
Veronica Arreola. For more info, see event Facebook
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Event occurs on 01/12/2012 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM.
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Book Review published in Ms. Magazine |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 12/06/2011 06:45 PM
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| Review of Ha Jin's "Nanjing Requiem" in fall 2011 print issue. |
Talking headaches and stigmas -- on NPR |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 07/28/2011 04:31 PM
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Both on July 27, 2011:
Minnesota Public Radio
With Dr. Elizabeth Loder, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Connecticut Public Radio
with Dr. Alan Rapoport, of UCLA Medical School |
Thoughts on Bachmann Migraine news coverage |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 07/21/2011 02:27 AM
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Quoted in Huffington Post
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